if you're from northern il... do you remember the snowstorm of '67??

Question

how old were you? do you remember that day? what did you do? tell me your stories. i'd love to hear your memories. i was only 6 but i remember it well.

i lived in lombard il. my mom went into labor with my bro. my dad was one of the few who got through. he had to go to the store for the docs and nurses at elmhurst memorial. i was at home with my 14 yr old sister. i went out back to play and fell in the window well. they couldn't find me and my dad had to come home. god they were scared. my sis found me. she saw me through the basement window. i had been beating on it. funny tough, i wasn't scared and i have no bad memories. it was a gas!!!

Answer 1

You're my "little" brothers age! He was not allowed to go out of the house because my mom was all paranoid that he was smaller than the drifts. We finally did play with him in the back yard.
- getting milk from the store and bringing it home on the sled in the middle of the street. My dad said it was a struggle to get it in the store.
- jumping off the roof of the garage into the drifts
- the whiteness of everything. It was so pretty
- NO SCHOOL
- NO SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

I'm from Michigan and I remember the Blizzard of '67! I was 5 years old at the time. My parents have photos of me standing next to snow drifts that were taller than me! The one thing I remember the most is that my dad worked at one of the local Oldsmobile plants back then. He worked the 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. shift. He took his dinner break every night at 8:30 and he would always call home to talk to my mom and to tell me goodnight. That night he called home and my mom begged him to come home because it was snowing really bad and she was scared he couldn't get home if he waited until his shift ended. He said he would leave work immediately. 4 hours later he still wasn't home (and we lived about 7 miles from his work). Finally, around 2 a.m. (according to my mother) he got home and was only able to pull part-way into the driveway because of the big drifts, so he had to leave it with it's rear end out in the road. Well, sometime during the night or early morning hours the snow plow came down our road and hit our car because the snow plow driver couldn't see it because it was burried under so much snow! The car was totalled, but daddy was home and that's all that mattered!!! Looking back on it, I can only imagine how worried my mother was knowing that my dad was out on the roads that night trying to get home. That was back in the day before cell phones so when she hung up that night from talking to him at his work, she didn't know if she'd ever hear his voice again!

Answer 3

Hey Racer,
Yes, I do remember it. The volume of snow was not antipated, and I remember hearing the story of someone calling Wally Phillips (talk radio on WGN) the next day complaining that he had 14 inches of partly cloudy sitting in his driveway.

Alongside our driveway we had a very large tree. The lowest branch was easily 12 ft off the ground. By the time the snow was cleared off the driveway, I was able to climb up the snowhill and sit on the branch.

Thanks for a great memory!

Answer 4

Presume that -Ones play the biggest snowman ever built,with deepest of 23inches of snow and the miserable codest,longest and bitter,below 10 degree

Answer 5

i wes 3 weeks old but i got 8 mm projection film and photos lots died from not all werefound untill the snow melted quit tragig my family told me,i was the youngest so all my family survived it